The winner of The New Yorker caption contest gets a signed print of the Katz cartoon with the caption, valued at around $250. You also get bragging rights that your words appeared in the Gotham weekly with a black-and-white cartoon featuring a naked man on a motorcycle.

Katz has been on both sides of that comic equation, presumably with his pants on in both respects. The Alamo Heights High School grad started at The New Yorker in 2007, picking candidates for the magazine’s cartoon captions. He went on to craft his own single-panel chortles as the magazine’s youngest staff cartoonist ever hired. Katz also draws the webcomic “Kids Are Dumb” and penned the two hilarious “Wimpy Kid” spoofs, “Journal of a Schoolyard Bully” and its sequel “Journal of a Schoolyard Bully: Cyberbully.”

The New Yorker caption contest is limited to 250 character or less, so brevity, wit, that sort of thing. Finalists appear online Feb. 25 and in the March 4 print issue. Here are the complete contest rules if you’re in desperate need of having your eyes glaze over.